Readers Are Leaders and Kids Need to Read!
Las Bellas Hijas de MufaroJohn Steptoe (A) Clarita Kohen (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – African Folklore / Two Sisters / Spanish Edition – 1997)
Mufaro has two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but Manyara is selfish and spoiled. When the king decides to choose a bride from among The Most Worthy…
$7.99
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom FightersAndrea Pinkney (A) and Stephen Alcorn (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Biographies / Women Leaders / Activists – 2013)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on…
$9.99
Lets Talk About RaceJulius Lester (A) and Karen Barbour (A) and (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Race / Similarities and Differences – 2005)
This gorgeous book—great to read with kids of any age—allows for open-ended conversation and questions.” (Brightly.com)
In this acclaimed book, the author of the Newberry Honor Book To Be a Slave shares his…
Original price was: $8.99.$7.49Current price is: $7.49.
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your DestinyHill Harper (A)
List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Mentoring / Boys / Guidance and Life Skills – 2007)
Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success.
Based on the author…
$18.00
Lies and Other Tall TalesCollected by Zora Neal Neal Hurston and Adapted by Christopher Myers (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Folk Lore – 2015)
Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn’t even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting…
Original price was: $7.99.$6.99Current price is: $6.99.
Like Sisters on the HomefrontRita Williams-Garcia (A)
List Price: $5.99 (Mass Market Paperback – Family / Pregnancy – 1998)
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old and her baby, Jose down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There’s nothing to do, nowhere…
$5.99
Major Taylor, Champion CyclistLesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)
List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Biography / Sports / Cyclist – 2003)
Introduces the life of the African-American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title. He was famous for the color of his skin as he was for his indomitable…
$19.99
Malcolm X: Fire Burning BrightlyWalter Dean Myers (A), Leonard Jenkins (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Leader / Revolutionary – 2003)
“I believe in recognizing every human being
as a human being, neither white, black, brown, nor red.”
This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of…
$8.99
Masai and IVirginia Kroll (A) and Nancy Carpenter (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – East African / Friendship – 1997)
A young African-American girl living in urban America feels a kinship with the East African people, the Masai, whom she is studying in school. She ponders her life and makes comparisons to…
$8.99
Meet Danitra BrownNikki Grimes (A) and Floyd Cooper (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Girls / Poetry – 1997)
Thirteen poems tell the story of the friendship of two girls, Zuri Jackson and Danitra Brown. The poems, in Zuri voice, celebrate Danitra bravery, spunk, and kindness. Oil-wash illustrations accompany the verses.…
$7.99
Michaels Golden RulesDeloris Jordan (A), Roslyn ME. Jordan (A)) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Sports / Baseball /Teamwork / Friendship – 2007)
Ive learned it takes heart to come out a winner every time, whether you win or lose. — Michael Jordan Jonathan wants to win more than…
$17.99
Mindful Messages WorkbookDeborah Day (A)
List Price: $12.95 (Paperback – Curriculum / Health, Culture and Life Skills – 2004)
The Mindful Messages Mentoring Program is an innovative Africentric Health Education, Culture and Life Skills Curriculum for youth ages 11-18. Its perfect for Home Scholars, Rites of Passage, After School and Church Youth…
Original price was: $12.95.$10.95Current price is: $10.95.
Mississippi Trial, 1955Chris Crowe (A) and Tim Okamura (ILT)
List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Fictionalized True Story / Emmett Till – 2002)
Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks…
$5.99
MonsterWalter Dean Myers (A) and Christopher Myers (ILT) (A)
List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Juvenile Justice / Narrative – 1999)
Winner of a Coretta Scott King Award. Steve Harmon, 16, is accused of serving as a lookout for a robbery of a Harlem drugstore. The owner was shot and killed,…
$15.99
Moonstick: The Seasons of the SiouxEve Bunting (A) and John Sandford (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Native American – Sioux / Spiritual / Coming of Age – 2000)
In this beautifully written story by acclaimed author Eve Bunting, a young boy comes of age under the thirteen moons of the Sioux year. With each…
$8.99
My Brother Martin: A Sister Growing Up With Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Christine King Farris (A) and Chris K. Soentpiet (ILT) (A)
List Price: $19.95 (Hardcover – Martin Luther King / Family – 2005)
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played practical jokes and made friends without any consideration to race. But growing…
$19.95
My Man BlueNikki Grimes (A) and Jerome LaGarrique (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Poetry / Friendship / Mentor – 1999)
In 14 knowing, heartfelt poems, Nikki Grimes invites readers to witness the friendship that blossoms between Damon, an African-American boy without a father, and Blue, a tough-looking man who has lost…
$7.99
No Mirrors In My Nanas HouseYsaye M. Barnwell (A) and Synthia Saint James (ILT)
List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Book and CD / Self Pride – 2005)
The beauty in the cracked and crowded hallway, the beauty in her own dark skin, the beauty in the outside world – it all in her Nana eyes.…
$10.99
No More! Stories and Songs of Slave ResistanceDoreen Rappaport (A) Shane Evans (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – History / Slave Resistance – 2005)
Ever since the first boatload of human cargo sailed to the New World, African Americans have waged a courageous struggle for dignity and freedom from slavery. Using true accounts, author Doreen Rappaport puts readers…
$9.99
Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil RightsDoreen Rappaport (A) and Shane W. Evans (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback- African American History / Civil Rights Era – 2006)
In the summer of 1955, Moses Wright braved mortal danger to testify against three white men accused of murdering Emmett Till – a brutal event that helped to spur the…
$9.99
One Hot Summer Day
List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Adventure and Discovery / 1995)
A simple story of a child everyday adventures, told in an innovative, yet accessible style that will be enjoyed by young listeners no matter what the season. Most of the fun filled activities, are centered around…
$16.99
Peekaboo MorningRachel Isadora (A and ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Playful Toddler – 2002)
A toddler plays peekaboo throughout the day with his Grand Parents.. (32 pgs) Ages Baby -3
- Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
$8.99
Please, Puppy, PleaseSpike and Tonya Lewis Lee (A) Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Toddlers with Puppy – 2005)
In page after page of tail-wagging fun, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Beacon Award-winning producer Tonya Lewis Lee, take a close-up look at what happens when a couple…
$18.99
Portraits of African American HeroesTonya Bolden (A) and Ansel Pitcairin (ILT)
List Price: $13.99 (Paperback – African American History / Heroes -2005)
This is a stunningly beautiful book consisting of portraits-in pictures and words-of twenty outstanding African-Americans. The individuals range from historical to contemporary figures, such as the dancer Judith Jamison, and represent diverse…
$13.99
Pretty Brown FaceAndrea and Brian Pinkney (A) and (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Self Esteem – 1997)
Babies will love the shiny mirror on the last page. So adoreable. (8 pgs) Ages 2-6
- Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
$8.99
Whoever You Are/Quienquiera que seasMem Fox (A) and Leslie Staub (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Board Book – Bi-Lingual / Children / Unity / Similarities – 2002)
Mem Fox’s touching tale of what bonds us all. Little one, whoever you are, she explains, there are children all over the world who may look different,…
$9.99
Rikki-Tikki-TaviRudyard Kipling (A) and Nataly Donskaya (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Myths and Fables / India – 2019)
The Jungle Book Tales by Rudyard Kipling
This book series presents one of the world’s most famous collections of stories for children – the animal tales by Rudyard Kipling.
The exciting adventures…
$9.99
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logan Family Saga #2)Mildred D. Taylor (A)
List Price: $9.99. (Paperback – Logan Family Saga #2 – 1976)
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie family? It takes the events of one turbulent year – the year of the night…
$9.99
Salt In His ShoesDeloris Jordan (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback- Biography / Sports / Basketball – 2000)
Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball. (32 pgs) Ages 4-8
- Product Dimensions:…
$8.99
Satchel PaigeLesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Sport / Baseball – 2005)
This book examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series. Some say Leroy Paige was born six…
$8.99
ScorpionsWalter Dean Myers (A)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Gangs / Drugs / Relationships – 1995)
Lately everybody is messing with Jamal. His teachers, the kids at school, even his dad. And now that Jamal brother Randy in the slam, Crazy Mack has a crazy idea. He wants…
$8.99
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our ChildrenSandra L. Pinkney (A) and Myles Pinkney (Photos)
List Price: $6.99 (Board Book – African American / Children’s Features – 2006)
The beauty of African-American children is celebrated in this joyous picture book. Wonderful, clear, full-color photographs of youngsters illustrate a poetic, vivid text that describes a range of skin and eye…
$6.99
Soul Looks Back In WonderVarious Authors and Tom Feelings (EDIT) and ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Poetry / African American – 1999)
Artist Feelings invited poets whom he admired to compose original, short verses for these drawings, with breathtakingly rich and powerful results. Together they created a tribute to African-American creativity, the collection…
$8.99
Summertime: From Porgy and BessGeorge Gershwin (A) and Mike Wimmer (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback / Plantation Life – 2002)
This lavish picture book is based on the beloved folk opera Porgy and Bess features Wimmer lush, epic oil paintings which reveal a vision of plantation life that extends the lyrics of this enormously popular…
$8.99
Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth ColemanNikki Grimes (A) and E. B. Lewis (ILT)
List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Biography / Aviation Pioneer – 2002)
Learn how a young African-American woman living in an era of segregation achieved her dream of flying. When the Wright brothers took their historic flight, 11-year-old Bessie Coleman vowed to become…
$18.99
Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern HaitiFrances Temple (A)
List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Social Political / Haitian Revolt – 2004)
Seventeen year old Do has a story: Once he was one of Titid’s boys, a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive,…
$5.99
The African American Baby Name BookTeresa Norman (A)
List Price: $18.00 (Paperback – Name Reference – 1998)
Names are a hallmark of our heritage, reflections of both the ethnic and religious roots of our past and our dreams for our childrens future. This A-to-Z guide includes more than 10,000 names, ranging from African names to contemporary…
$18.00
The BeastWalter Dean Myers (A)
List Price: $16.95 (Hardcover – Fiction / Racial and Social Divides / Relationships / Drug Addiction – 2003)
Anthony Spoon Witherspoon, 17, leaves Harlem, and his girl, Gabi, to spend his senior year at Wallingford Academy in Connecticut, with the hope that he will get into an Ivy League…
$16.95
The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
List Price: $16.95 (Hardcover – Poetry / Harlem Renaissance – 2005)
A remarkable and much-needed collection for the youngest lovers of poetry, Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance features poems from the leaders of this cultural movement…
$16.95
The Great Migration: An American StoryJacob Lawrence (A and ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – African American History / Migration North 1900 – 2007)
A noted African-American artist chronicles the 1916-1919 migration of blacks from the South through a sequence of 60 paintings and accompanying narrative captions. The story begins with the call for new…
$9.99
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Biography / History / W.W.1 – 2005)
The Harlem Hellfighters, the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I, redefined heroism – for America, and for the world. At a…
$9.99
The House of Dies DrearVirginia Hamilton (A)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Mystery / Ancestor Ghosts – 2006)
The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend — two fugitive…
$8.99
The Neighborhood Mother GooseNina Crews (A) and (PHOTO)
List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Poetry – 2003)
Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one…
$17.99
The Pan-AfricanistsKofi A. Annan (A), Dudley J. Thompson (A) and Barrington A. Watson (ILT)
List Price: $15.00 (Paperback – Biographies / Pan Africanists – 2005)
This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout…
Original price was: $15.00.$14.00Current price is: $14.00.
The Planet of Junior BrownVirginia Hamilton (A) and Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Friendship / Drama – 2006)
Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits…
$8.99
The Righteous Revenge of Artemis BonnerWalter Dean Myers (A)
List Price : $7.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Western Adventure / Friendship and Revenge – 1994)
Fifteen-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1882, to avenge the murder of his uncle.
Wanted: One low-lifed,…
$7.99
The Rose That Grew From ConcreteNikki Giovannni (A), Tupac Shakur (A) and Leila Steinberg (Photo)
List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Poetry / Hip Hop – 1999)
His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic — a violent homage to the power of his voice.…
$16.00
The Souls of Black FolksW. E. Du Boise (A)
List Price: $4.99 (Paperback – African American History / Negro Life / 20th Century / Race – 2005)
This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and…
$4.99
The Village That VanishedAnne Grifalconi (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – African Village / Escape – 2004)
An inspiring tale of one girls struggle to preserve her peoples freedom. Young Abikanile and all of the villagers of Yao feel safe hidden deep within…
$8.99
This Is The DreamDiane Z. Shore (A) and Jessica Alexander (A) James Ransome (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – History / Civil Rights / Racism / Segregation / Integration – 2005)
Our nation was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. Nearly two hundred years after the signing of the…
$9.99
Las Bellas Hijas de MufaroJohn Steptoe (A) Clarita Kohen (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – African Folklore / Two Sisters / Spanish Edition – 1997)
Mufaro has two beautiful daughters. Nyasha is kind and considerate, but Manyara is selfish and spoiled. When the king decides to choose a bride from among The Most Worthy…
$7.99
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom FightersAndrea Pinkney (A) and Stephen Alcorn (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – Biographies / Women Leaders / Activists – 2013)
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on…
$9.99
Lets Talk About RaceJulius Lester (A) and Karen Barbour (A) and (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Race / Similarities and Differences – 2005)
This gorgeous book—great to read with kids of any age—allows for open-ended conversation and questions.” (Brightly.com)
In this acclaimed book, the author of the Newberry Honor Book To Be a Slave shares his…
Original price was: $8.99.$7.49Current price is: $7.49.
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your DestinyHill Harper (A)
List Price: $16.00 (Paperback – Mentoring / Boys / Guidance and Life Skills – 2007)
Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of letters provides wisdom, guidance, and heartfelt insight to help the reader chart their own path to success.
Based on the author…
$18.00
Lies and Other Tall TalesCollected by Zora Neal Neal Hurston and Adapted by Christopher Myers (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Folk Lore – 2015)
Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn’t even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting…
Original price was: $7.99.$6.99Current price is: $6.99.
Like Sisters on the HomefrontRita Williams-Garcia (A)
List Price: $5.99 (Mass Market Paperback – Family / Pregnancy – 1998)
When Gayle gets into trouble with her boyfriend, her mother sends the street-smart 14-year-old and her baby, Jose down to Georgia, to live with Uncle Luther and his family. There’s nothing to do, nowhere…
$5.99
Major Taylor, Champion CyclistLesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)
List Price: $19.99 (Hardcover – Biography / Sports / Cyclist – 2003)
Introduces the life of the African-American bicycle racer who won the 1899 World Championship title. He was famous for the color of his skin as he was for his indomitable…
$19.99
Malcolm X: Fire Burning BrightlyWalter Dean Myers (A), Leonard Jenkins (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Leader / Revolutionary – 2003)
“I believe in recognizing every human being
as a human being, neither white, black, brown, nor red.”
This was just one of the messages that Malcolm X brought to people of…
$8.99
Masai and IVirginia Kroll (A) and Nancy Carpenter (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – East African / Friendship – 1997)
A young African-American girl living in urban America feels a kinship with the East African people, the Masai, whom she is studying in school. She ponders her life and makes comparisons to…
$8.99
Meet Danitra BrownNikki Grimes (A) and Floyd Cooper (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Friendship / Girls / Poetry – 1997)
Thirteen poems tell the story of the friendship of two girls, Zuri Jackson and Danitra Brown. The poems, in Zuri voice, celebrate Danitra bravery, spunk, and kindness. Oil-wash illustrations accompany the verses.…
$7.99
Michaels Golden RulesDeloris Jordan (A), Roslyn ME. Jordan (A)) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover – Sports / Baseball /Teamwork / Friendship – 2007)
Ive learned it takes heart to come out a winner every time, whether you win or lose. — Michael Jordan Jonathan wants to win more than…
$17.99
Mindful Messages WorkbookDeborah Day (A)
List Price: $12.95 (Paperback – Curriculum / Health, Culture and Life Skills – 2004)
The Mindful Messages Mentoring Program is an innovative Africentric Health Education, Culture and Life Skills Curriculum for youth ages 11-18. Its perfect for Home Scholars, Rites of Passage, After School and Church Youth…
Original price was: $12.95.$10.95Current price is: $10.95.
Mississippi Trial, 1955Chris Crowe (A) and Tim Okamura (ILT)
List Price: $5.99 (Paperback – Fictionalized True Story / Emmett Till – 2002)
Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old black teenager from Chicago, was unused to the mores of the segregated South. While visiting his uncle in the summer of 1955, he allegedly made flirtatious remarks…
$5.99
MonsterWalter Dean Myers (A) and Christopher Myers (ILT) (A)
List Price: $15.99 (Paperback – Juvenile Justice / Narrative – 1999)
Winner of a Coretta Scott King Award. Steve Harmon, 16, is accused of serving as a lookout for a robbery of a Harlem drugstore. The owner was shot and killed,…
$15.99
Moonstick: The Seasons of the SiouxEve Bunting (A) and John Sandford (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Native American – Sioux / Spiritual / Coming of Age – 2000)
In this beautifully written story by acclaimed author Eve Bunting, a young boy comes of age under the thirteen moons of the Sioux year. With each…
$8.99
My Brother Martin: A Sister Growing Up With Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Christine King Farris (A) and Chris K. Soentpiet (ILT) (A)
List Price: $19.95 (Hardcover – Martin Luther King / Family – 2005)
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played practical jokes and made friends without any consideration to race. But growing…
$19.95
My Man BlueNikki Grimes (A) and Jerome LaGarrique (ILT)
List Price: $7.99 (Paperback – Poetry / Friendship / Mentor – 1999)
In 14 knowing, heartfelt poems, Nikki Grimes invites readers to witness the friendship that blossoms between Damon, an African-American boy without a father, and Blue, a tough-looking man who has lost…
$7.99
No Mirrors In My Nanas HouseYsaye M. Barnwell (A) and Synthia Saint James (ILT)
List Price: $10.99 (Paperback – Book and CD / Self Pride – 2005)
The beauty in the cracked and crowded hallway, the beauty in her own dark skin, the beauty in the outside world – it all in her Nana eyes.…
$10.99
No More! Stories and Songs of Slave ResistanceDoreen Rappaport (A) Shane Evans (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback – History / Slave Resistance – 2005)
Ever since the first boatload of human cargo sailed to the New World, African Americans have waged a courageous struggle for dignity and freedom from slavery. Using true accounts, author Doreen Rappaport puts readers…
$9.99
Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil RightsDoreen Rappaport (A) and Shane W. Evans (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Paperback- African American History / Civil Rights Era – 2006)
In the summer of 1955, Moses Wright braved mortal danger to testify against three white men accused of murdering Emmett Till – a brutal event that helped to spur the…
$9.99
One Hot Summer Day
List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover – Adventure and Discovery / 1995)
A simple story of a child everyday adventures, told in an innovative, yet accessible style that will be enjoyed by young listeners no matter what the season. Most of the fun filled activities, are centered around…
$16.99
Peekaboo MorningRachel Isadora (A and ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Playful Toddler – 2002)
A toddler plays peekaboo throughout the day with his Grand Parents.. (32 pgs) Ages Baby -3
- Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
$8.99
Please, Puppy, PleaseSpike and Tonya Lewis Lee (A) Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover – Toddlers with Puppy – 2005)
In page after page of tail-wagging fun, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and his wife, Beacon Award-winning producer Tonya Lewis Lee, take a close-up look at what happens when a couple…
$18.99
Portraits of African American HeroesTonya Bolden (A) and Ansel Pitcairin (ILT)
List Price: $13.99 (Paperback – African American History / Heroes -2005)
This is a stunningly beautiful book consisting of portraits-in pictures and words-of twenty outstanding African-Americans. The individuals range from historical to contemporary figures, such as the dancer Judith Jamison, and represent diverse…
$13.99
Pretty Brown FaceAndrea and Brian Pinkney (A) and (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Board Book – Self Esteem – 1997)
Babies will love the shiny mirror on the last page. So adoreable. (8 pgs) Ages 2-6
- Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
$8.99
Whoever You Are/Quienquiera que seasMem Fox (A) and Leslie Staub (ILT)
List Price: $9.99 (Board Book – Bi-Lingual / Children / Unity / Similarities – 2002)
Mem Fox’s touching tale of what bonds us all. Little one, whoever you are, she explains, there are children all over the world who may look different,…
$9.99
Rikki-Tikki-TaviRudyard Kipling (A) and Nataly Donskaya (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Myths and Fables / India – 2019)
The Jungle Book Tales by Rudyard Kipling
This book series presents one of the world’s most famous collections of stories for children – the animal tales by Rudyard Kipling.
The exciting adventures…
$9.99
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logan Family Saga #2)Mildred D. Taylor (A)
List Price: $9.99. (Paperback – Logan Family Saga #2 – 1976)
With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart. Why is the land so important to Cassie family? It takes the events of one turbulent year – the year of the night…
$9.99
Salt In His ShoesDeloris Jordan (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback- Biography / Sports / Basketball – 2000)
Young Michael Jordan, who is smaller than the other players, learns that determination and hard work are more important than size when playing the game of basketball. (32 pgs) Ages 4-8
- Product Dimensions:…
$8.99
Satchel PaigeLesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Biography / Sport / Baseball – 2005)
This book examines the life of the legendary baseball player, who was the first African-American to pitch in a Major League World Series. Some say Leroy Paige was born six…
$8.99
ScorpionsWalter Dean Myers (A)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Teen Fiction / Gangs / Drugs / Relationships – 1995)
Lately everybody is messing with Jamal. His teachers, the kids at school, even his dad. And now that Jamal brother Randy in the slam, Crazy Mack has a crazy idea. He wants…
$8.99
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our ChildrenSandra L. Pinkney (A) and Myles Pinkney (Photos)
List Price: $6.99 (Board Book – African American / Children’s Features – 2006)
The beauty of African-American children is celebrated in this joyous picture book. Wonderful, clear, full-color photographs of youngsters illustrate a poetic, vivid text that describes a range of skin and eye…
$6.99
Soul Looks Back In WonderVarious Authors and Tom Feelings (EDIT) and ILT)
List Price: $8.99 (Paperback – Poetry / African American – 1999)
Artist Feelings invited poets whom he admired to compose original, short verses for these drawings, with breathtakingly rich and powerful results. Together they created a tribute to African-American creativity, the collection…
$8.99
Summertime: From Porgy and BessGeorge Gershwin (A) and Mike Wimmer (ILT)
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This lavish picture book is based on the beloved folk opera Porgy and Bess features Wimmer lush, epic oil paintings which reveal a vision of plantation life that extends the lyrics of this enormously popular…
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Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth ColemanNikki Grimes (A) and E. B. Lewis (ILT)
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Learn how a young African-American woman living in an era of segregation achieved her dream of flying. When the Wright brothers took their historic flight, 11-year-old Bessie Coleman vowed to become…
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Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern HaitiFrances Temple (A)
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Seventeen year old Do has a story: Once he was one of Titid’s boys, a vital member of Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s election team, fighting to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. Now he is barely alive,…
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The African American Baby Name BookTeresa Norman (A)
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Names are a hallmark of our heritage, reflections of both the ethnic and religious roots of our past and our dreams for our childrens future. This A-to-Z guide includes more than 10,000 names, ranging from African names to contemporary…
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The BeastWalter Dean Myers (A)
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Anthony Spoon Witherspoon, 17, leaves Harlem, and his girl, Gabi, to spend his senior year at Wallingford Academy in Connecticut, with the hope that he will get into an Ivy League…
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The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
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A remarkable and much-needed collection for the youngest lovers of poetry, Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance features poems from the leaders of this cultural movement…
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The Great Migration: An American StoryJacob Lawrence (A and ILT)
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A noted African-American artist chronicles the 1916-1919 migration of blacks from the South through a sequence of 60 paintings and accompanying narrative captions. The story begins with the call for new…
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The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
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The Harlem Hellfighters, the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I, redefined heroism – for America, and for the world. At a…
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The House of Dies DrearVirginia Hamilton (A)
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The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend — two fugitive…
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The Neighborhood Mother GooseNina Crews (A) and (PHOTO)
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Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one…
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The Pan-AfricanistsKofi A. Annan (A), Dudley J. Thompson (A) and Barrington A. Watson (ILT)
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This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the liberation, unity and solidarity of Africa and African peoples throughout…
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The Planet of Junior BrownVirginia Hamilton (A) and Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon (ILT)
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Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred pound musical prodigy who prone to having fantasies, and Buddy Clark, a loner who lives by his wits…
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The Righteous Revenge of Artemis BonnerWalter Dean Myers (A)
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Fifteen-year-old Artemis journeys from New York City to Tombstone, Arizona, in 1882, to avenge the murder of his uncle.
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The Rose That Grew From ConcreteNikki Giovannni (A), Tupac Shakur (A) and Leila Steinberg (Photo)
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His talent was unbounded, a raw force that commanded attention and respect. His death was tragic — a violent homage to the power of his voice.…
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The Souls of Black FolksW. E. Du Boise (A)
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This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and…
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The Village That VanishedAnne Grifalconi (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT)
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An inspiring tale of one girls struggle to preserve her peoples freedom. Young Abikanile and all of the villagers of Yao feel safe hidden deep within…
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This Is The DreamDiane Z. Shore (A) and Jessica Alexander (A) James Ransome (ILT)
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Our nation was founded on the belief that all men are created equal. Nearly two hundred years after the signing of the…
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Pretty Brown FaceAndrea and Brian Pinkney (A) and (ILT)
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Babies will love the shiny mirror on the last page. So adoreable. (8 pgs) Ages 2-6
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Whoever You Are/Quienquiera que seasMem Fox (A) and Leslie Staub (ILT)
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Mem Fox’s touching tale of what bonds us all. Little one, whoever you are, she explains, there are children all over the world who may look different,…
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Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our ChildrenSandra L. Pinkney (A) and Myles Pinkney (Photos)
List Price: $6.99 (Board Book – African American / Children’s Features – 2006)
The beauty of African-American children is celebrated in this joyous picture book. Wonderful, clear, full-color photographs of youngsters illustrate a poetic, vivid text that describes a range of skin and eye…
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Whose Toes Are Those?Jabari Asim (A) and LeUyen Pham (ILT)
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Children are invited to explore their toes by playing Little Piggy. (11 pgs) Ages Baby – 4
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Feast for 10Cathyrn Falwell (A) and (ILT)
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In this rhyming counting book, an African-American mother and her children shop for and prepare a festive family dinner. At the supermarket, the count begins with one grocery cart and ends with ten hands helping to load the…
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Kitchen DanceMaurie J. Manning (A and ILT)
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A little girl wakes in the night to mysterious, inviting noises. She rouses her brother, and they sneak downstairs and peek into the kitchen. To their amazement and delight, their parents are dancing and…
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Ages 4-8 and Grades K-3
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Like Lava In My VeinsDerrick Barnes (A) and Shawn Martinbrough (ILT)
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All it takes is a loving teacher to help a boy get control of his sizzling superpowers, in this vibrant picture book by bestselling author Derrick Barnes.
Bobby Beacon’s…
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When I Wrap My HairShauntay Grant (Author) and Jenin Mohammad (Illustrator)
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There Was a Party for LangstonJason Reynolds (A) and Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey (ILT)
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A Caldecott Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is…
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A Is For AfricaIfeoma Onyefulu (A and Photos)
List Price $7.99 (Paperback – Alphabet Book / African Themes and Concepts – 1999)
This alphabet is based on my own favorite images of the Africa I know, writes Onyefulu, a member of the Igbo tribe who grew up in Nigeria and now lives in…
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AbiyoyoPete Seeger (Storysong) and Michael Hays (ILT)
American folk singer Pete Seeger retells a South African folktale about a boy and his father who, after being banished from town for making mischief, are welcomed back when they find a way…
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Shop the Best Reads at Our Children’s Bookstore
“With over 25 years in business, we’ve built strong partnerships with publishers and distributors—one of the many valuable benefits we’re able to offer our customers.”
We are enthusiastic about the upcoming school year and are committed to expanding our collection with a wide range of popular titles. At present, our online inventory includes more than 1,300 books, with an additional 3,000 titles in our database, the majority of which align with Core Curriculum Standards. Our high-quality books are sure to capture their attention, stir the imagination and engage students to want to read.
Ashay By The Bay is the #1 Black Children’s Bookstore, aka The Largest Selection of African American and Multi-Cultural Children’s Bookstore. Our hand-picked selection includes 49 collections of diverse and inclusive stories that ignite young minds and foster a love for reading at an early age. From picture books to children’s novels, our bookstore has something for every age and interest.
With over 25 years in business, we’ve built strong partnerships with publishers and distributors—and that has been an added value for our customers. We are enthusiastic about the new school year and we are committed to continue bringing you the best high quality books that educate and empower children.

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American Medical Association Boy’s Guide To Becoming A TeenAmerican Medical Association and Amy B. Middleman (EDIT) and Kate Gruenwald Pfeifer (A)
List Price: $17.00 (Paperback – Teen Self Help / Boys / Puberty / Health – 2006)
Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every boy life. It even more important to get answers and advice to the…
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American Medical Association Girl’s Guide to Becoming a TeenAmerican Medical Association and Amy B. Middleman (EDIT) and Kate Gruenwald (A)
Becoming a teen is an important milestone in every girl’s life. It?s even more important to…
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Clubhouse Mysteries #2: Lost in the Tunnel of TimeSharon M. Draper (A) and Jesse Joshua Watson (ILT)
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Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico — the Black Dinosaurs — are thrilled to discover that their hometown was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Even more exciting, their new…
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Dear Benjamin BannekerAndrea Davis Pinkney (A) and Brian Pinkney (ILT)
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Benjamin Banneker was born free when most blacks in this country were still enslaved. But it troubled him that not all blacks were not…
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Drita, My HomegirlJenny Lombard (A)
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Drita and her family come to New York as refugees from war-torn Kosovo. Even though she barely speaks English, Drita can’t wait to start school and make a new…
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Escape From Slavery: Five Journeys to FreedomDoreen Rappaport (A) and Charles Lilly (ILT)
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Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, masquerading as boys. Henry Box Brown, shipping himself north in a wooden crate. Jane Johnson, risking everything to testify against…
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